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The garden of Wartegg Castle tells its story not loudly, but through lines, sightlines, and open spaces.
Its current form is owed to Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Duchess and Regent of Parma, who acquired the castle in 1860 as her exile residence. A year earlier, she had commissioned the French landscape architect Paul Lavenne de Choulot to design the park.
Choulot was considered a green visionary of his time, shaping large parts of France with his English-style parks. Outside his home country, he designed only two parks. The Wartegg Castle grounds are one of only four he designed as a so-called 'royal park'. To this day, gentle transitions, deliberate sightlines, and the connection between nature and architecture define this historic garden, which doesn't stage, but rather provides space.
